Activities of Elena VALENCIANO related to 2015/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration (A8-0066/2016 - Roberta Metsola, Kashetu Kyenge) ES
Amendments (4)
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the EU and its Member States, in the face of current and future migration crises, to award top priority to a humanitarian response that seeks always to ensure the protection, safety and dignity of the migrant population; believes that this response, based on respect for human rights, must reflect the scale of each crisis, and may include the opening of human corridors that enable those affected to access humanitarian aid;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the EU and the Member States, within the framework of a common asylum policy, to promote the creation of secure entry mechanisms for asylum seekers, including the introduction of a humanitarian visa which, since it could be issued in third countries, would constitute a safe, legal and supervised means of entry for such asylum seekers;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that migrant children are particularly vulnerable, especially when they are unaccompanied; recalls that unaccompanied children are above all children and that child protection, rather than immigration policies, must be the leading principle when dealing with them, thus respecting the core principle of the best interests of the child;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. The EU should have a centralised European asylum system, organized by the European Commission to deal with these requests and therefore facilitate and speed up the fairly shared distribution of refugees needed among all EU countries. The current situation in Hungary with regard to Austria and Germany shows the embarrassing lack of any coordination and coherent action among EU countries, increasing the chaos and worsening this critical situation. Since it is a huge and complex crisis the EU and its Member States should give a better response to the crisis;